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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many ... to Do It. A few weeks ago, I was searching for 8.02 ASE materials for ... that I was working 12 hours a week for virtually nothing. Get funding

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  here, I've only been officially blogging for a couple of months, and I just now realized that what can start as a simple guess as to an ... anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  I got an e-mail the other day from a deferred applicant, who said ... by getting an A. I work hard, demonstrate my enthusiasm for a subject ... awards that I had a hard time tearing my attention from the results I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... you are not a good person. But that's just not the case. I think part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I ... One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from [annotation note="a ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can't help myself ... figured I'd give a mini tutorial for any interested at home.   ... idea can't even remotely be attributed to me. If anything, it's just a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  embarrassing myself on a daily basis I can do that, too. Here, I will start you ... my biography, but here's a little more! I was born in China, grew up ... MIT was 3 hours long. I sent a photography portfolio and a supplemental

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  , “Special report from Boston!” (where I’m a student ... , lol. I was going to translate (as best I could) the article from the ... , I’m not responsible for any errors.) I was assigned to start

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received over 50 applications for four spots. Over the last week and a half the ... :  Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  've known you for like a year and we've never actually met." "I know, you ... was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  entertaining readings I’ve had from a class. So far my favorite one has been The ... thing. I think it's worth it for the read! Overall this class has been a ... , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  April/May and none of what I’m doing right now counts? Well, for ... practicals where we have to 1) participate and 2) write up a lab report. Each ... . Depending on your subject and which year you're in, you can have anywhere from

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  's the lobby where people mingled and waited in line for their rings. The roof of the cylinder lobby ring area. A jazz band played for the ... I finished finals yesterday (Tuesday), so now I am pretty much done

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  (which I've traded a few sleeping hours for at market price) surrounded by ... like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there ... things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  without a car sucks LA is too flat for my taste. i feel exposed ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... some things that i've taken away from this summer. these things aren

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  tinkerer/builder type who had a passion for creation. I wore around my MIT ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this ... list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... those who learned this unhappy news today, I want to express my thanks for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere ... Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023